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‘Bedlam’ Offers Insight into the Horrors of Mental Illness in America

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Christopher Campbell
Jan 28, 2019
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The American streets are screaming, but after a lifetime of speeding from point A to point B, I have developed a willful ignorance. I hear the man shouting at the bus stop. I see the woman hurriedly dancing to the music of her mind. I drop a bill into their cups. I keep stepping.

Where did these people come from? Who can help them if not me on my way to …

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